If you wish to take a snapshot of your instance or copy the Image of an existing instance to other regions, you may create an AMI.
To generate an AMI, follow these steps:
STEPS
Login to your AWS Account
Under Actions > Image and templates > Create Image
- You can also Choose Create Image from the context menu when you right-click the instance you wish to use as the foundation for your AMI.
In Create image, type your desired naming convention, then Create Image.
- Choose the No reboot option if you don’t want your instance to be shut down.
- If your server is running slowly, you can restart it. Similarly to what we do when our laptops/desktops perform slowly 😅
It may take a few minutes for the AMI to be created.
After it is created, it will appear in the AMIs view in AWS Explorer. To display this view, under Images, click AMIs.
